Kaoru is a college student and exile from the Hanabishi house. Having endured years of physical and emotional abuse from his grandfather, he made the choice to break free and move out on his own.

Accidental Pervert: Subverted; while Kaoru often finds himself in these kinds of situations, the girls always give him time to explain and realize it wasn't his fault, at times even realizing as such without an explanation. It's played straight once at the beginning of the series; when Miyabi finds Aoi in Kaoru's house with a naked Kaoru on top of her (Kaoru was trying to stop Aoi from coming into the bathroom while he was bathing), she beats the crap out of him before Aoi calms her down.

Achey Scars: The ones he got from his grandpa tend to hurt quite a bit when he's stressed.

Dark and Troubled Past: After his father's death, the Hanabishi family forced Kaoru's mother to give Kaoru up to them for the sole purpose of raising him to be their next heir. Kaoru suffered years of physical and emotional abuse at the hands of his paternal grandfather, which culminated in said grandfather burning all of his mother's possessions and photos; when Kaoru tried to stop him, his grandfather savagely beat him with a wooden cane, leaving his back Covered with Scars. Sometime after this incident, Kaoru ran away from the Hanabishis and severed all ties with them for good.

Devoted to You: Aoi has been devotedly in love with him since they were children. Even after he left Hanabishis and their engagement was broken, she never stopped loving him and kept working hard to become the perfect wife for him. She ran away from home on her own to go and find him and since he wouldn't go back to the Hanabishi household, she decided she would leave the Sakuraba household to marry him.

Parental Abandonment: Both his parents died on different dates, before the start of the story. However, his mother's fate was given more emphasis.

Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Kaoru and Aoi love each other deeply in addition to being arranged to marry. Unfortunately, the arrangement was broken when Kaoru left the Hanabishi family, which is the primary cause for the drama in the story.

Scars Are Forever: Some pretty nasty ones on his back as previously mentioned in Abusive Parents above. By the end of the story, they've finally started to fade.

Aoi is one of the living heirs to the Sakuraba dry goodsnote now a department store fortune. She had kept a Childhood Marriage Promise to Kaoru, even though her own parents were against the idea after he ran away from the Hanabishis. A chance encounter on a train has reunited them, and she has vowed to uphold her promise to stay with Kaoru for the rest of her life.

All-Loving Heroine: Aoi loves everyone, and everyone loves Aoi. Pretty much every female member of the cast aspires to be like Aoi. Ironically, however, Aoi seems a bit oblivious to the depths of the devotion of her own mentor, Miyabi.

Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Has some of this dynamic with Kaoru. Kaoru isn't exactly brooding, but he has serious emotional traumas from the abuse he suffered from his grandfather and the death of his mother. Aoi's kind and loving personality helps heal Kaoru's mental and emotional damage.

Forgotten First Meeting: She meets Kaoru again after 18 years when she's on her way to meeting him, but they don't recognize each other. It's only after she realizes the address she had was wrong and that she shows Kaoru a picture of them when they were children that they realize they are childhood friends.

Perfectly Arranged Marriage: Kaoru and Aoi love each other deeply in addition to being arranged to marry. Unfortunately, the arrangement was broken when Kaoru left the Hanabishi family, which is the primary cause for the drama in the story.

Eek, a Mouse!!: She's perfectly capable of bodily throwing Kaoru across the room, but if she sees a bug, she'll absolutely freak out. Unfortunately for her, Uzume has a habit of bringing her dead bugs.

Lethal Chef: A variation; while her cooking looks bad, it actually tastes fine.

Phenotype Stereotype: Although she's usually 'American'-like in promotionals and merchandise due to her appearance, she was born in Japan and simply travels a lot, which at least provides an excuse for her horrible English.

Taeko is a close friend of Tina and belongs to the same photography club where Tina and Kaoru are members. She seems to have a very unlucky streak (mostly involving tripping over things), and has been unable to hold down any kind of permanent job because of this, until pleas from Aoi and friends convince Miyabi to allow her to work as a maid.

Cordon Bleugh Chef: Taeko is capable of producing decent meals, but she has a tendency to mix her normal meals with chocolate.

Cute Clumsy Girl: As the housekeeper, she was so clumsy that Aoi had to convince Miyabi to hire her, as she had a tendency to break a lot of valuable objects, but she tries to do her best.

Gag Boobs: Her most prominent features are her very large breasts (that never stop growing) and her clumsiness.

Meido: She moves into the Sakuraba summer house as the housekeeper after being relieved of her previous housekeeping job.

Uzume

A ferret that Tina buys for the house, though he becomes far more attached to Miyabi.

Children Are Innocent: When she asks the other girls if they love Kaoru, they all freak out because what they mean by love and what Chika means are two different things (maybe).

Reluctant Fanservice Girl: A Running Gag in the story has various accidents and mishaps leave Chika standing completely naked in front of Kaoru. On one particular occasion, she not only drags her friends into it, she finds herself on the ground with her legs spread wide.

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